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MTV Networks Launches VOD Content in Latin America MIAMI, May 22: MTV Networks Latin America (MTVNLA) is rolling out video on demand content to cable operators in the region through Digital Latin America (DLA), a provider of digital content and …

NEW YORK, May 22: Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has reached a deal with Joost to assist in its efforts to secure entertaining content for distribution on the Internet TV platform. The agreement will allow Joost to obtain additional programming by …

SANTA MONICA, May 22: GSN has acquired the rights to Show Me the Money, the Endemol USA game show produced for ABC and distributed in the U.S. by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The agreement for the show, which is hosted by …

TORONTO, May 22: The Banff World Television Festival (BWTVF) has announced that Gilbert Rozon and the Just For Laughs comedy festival will receive the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award during the BWTVF Awards Show on Monday, June 11. Past Sir …

PALO ALTO, May 22: Azureus, a peer-to-peer based content distributor, has reached a deal to make a range of party and dance music-themed programming from Ministry of Sound TV (MoSTV) available on its broadband video-sharing platform Vuze. Launched in November …

LOS ANGELES, May 22: MGM Domestic Television Distribution has secured a national fall syndication launch for its half-hour improv comedy series Sports Action Team, which has cleared all ten NBC-owned and operating stations in the U.S. The ten NBC-owned and …

NEW YORK, May 22: Animators are being encouraged to submit entries to the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival—which is offering up a $10,000 prize—before the deadline on June 1. The festival, now in its fourth year, celebrates the art of the …

SINGAPORE, May 22: AETN All Asia Networks (AAAN), the recently launched joint venture of A&E Television Networks and ASTRO All Asia Networks, has named Louis Boswell as general manager, and has also appointed Michele Schofield as the director of content …

ATLANTA, May 22: Rico Hill, previously with Nickelodeon, has been named the VP of programming and acquisitions for Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang, reporting directly to Bob Higgins, the senior VP of programming and development for Cartoon Network …

NEW YORK, May 21: RHI Entertainment has appointed former GSN executive Russell Maitland to the newly created position of senior VP of advertising sales. Based in New York, Maitland, who has already assumed the post, will be responsible for leading …